Famous Criticism Quotes - Famous Quotes about Criticism
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
- Iris Murdoch
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A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
- Danielle Steel
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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
- Christopher Morley
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A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
- Kenneth Tynan
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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
- Dustin Hoffman
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A thick skin is a gift from God.
- Konrad Adenauer
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All critics should be assassinated.
- Man Ray
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
- Kenneth Tynan
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Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Coughing in the theatre is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
- Alan Jay Lerner
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
- Nat King Cole
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Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.
- Spike Lee
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
- Robert Burns
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. (quoted in the New York Mirror, 27th May 1955)
- P. G. Wodehouse
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Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
- Eli Wallach
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I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment, it will be behind me.
- Max Reger
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
- James Baldwin
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I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
- Noel Coward
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If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
- Edward Albee
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If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
- Margaret Thatcher
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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
- Henry Steele Commager
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Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. I'd rather just refuse, thanks.
- Chazz Palminteri
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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- W. H. Auden
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The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
- George Moore
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
- Walt Disney
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